: a British soldier especially in America during the Revolutionary War
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In the ad, over elegiac fiddle music, a fleet of Dodge Challengers speeds through a bucolic landscape and scatters a regiment of musket-bearing redcoats.
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Alex Carp, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
The redcoats won the Battle of Bunker Hill, and Lexington and Concord, and Quebec.
—Tom Shattuck, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2025
American soldiers shot at the redcoats, who came up the hill in three waves.
—Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
Playing the evil redcoat William Tavington in Emmerich’s The Patriot in 2000 was considered your breakout role.
—Andrew Goldman, Vulture, 16 June 2025
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Alex Carp, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
The redcoats won the Battle of Bunker Hill, and Lexington and Concord, and Quebec.
—Tom Shattuck, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2025
American soldiers shot at the redcoats, who came up the hill in three waves.
—Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
Playing the evil redcoat William Tavington in Emmerich’s The Patriot in 2000 was considered your breakout role.
—Andrew Goldman, Vulture, 16 June 2025
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“Redcoat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redcoat. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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redcoat
noun
red·coat
ˈred-ˌkōt 
: a British soldier especially during the American Revolution
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